Read the poem and answer the question. "an hymn to the evening" soon as the sun forsook the eastern main, the pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain: majestic grandeur! from the zephyr's wing exhales the incense of the blooming spring. soft purl the streams; the birds renew their notes, and through the air their mingled music floats. through all the heav'ns what beauteous dies are spread! but the west glories in the deepest red: so may our breasts with ev'ry virtue glow, the living temples of our god below. fill'd with the praise of him who gives the light and draws the sable curtains of the night, let placid slumbers sooth each weary mind at morn to wake more heav'nly, more refin'd; so shall the labours of the day begin more pure, more guarded from the snares of sin. night's leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes; then cease, my song, till fair aurora rise. the description of the sun and the thunder in the first two lines of the poem demonstrate use of . allusion heroic couplets personification symbolism

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.